Last week, my boiler broke down (bear with me I do have a point here). For two full days during one of the coldest weeks in the year I had no hot water or heating in my flat, and when I called British Gas I was quickly assured that an engineer would be round imminently [...]
Here at 1000heads we’ve always had a very strong belief in the value of honest word of mouth for businesses. That means good and bad. Our ethics policy explains that we encourage people to discuss what they *really think* about brands, products and services. They won’t get rewarded for one-note glowing reviews. They won’t be [...]
I am currently attracting more sulky looks than usual in my house. They are coming from my 12-year-old son, who feels that my level of strictness has reached stratospheric heights, and that I am in risk of damaging our relationship permanently. Of course I am not alone in this – every parent the world over [...]
We’ve managed to cobble together fifteen of the best looking men (all the ugly ones opted out) from the 1000heads London office to participate in this year’s charity fund-raising initiative, Movember. Robin, Henry, Egidijus, Hazem, James, Andy, Freddie, Kingsley Ricc, Alex, Joe, Tim, Nick, Aurélien If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, Movember is a moustache [...]
Here at 1000heads we’re proud for our ethics. We don’t contact anyone under 16 to take part in our campaigns (and if we do it by mistake, as is all too easy online, we apologise sincerely and back out). We only invite people 18 and over to take part in our events. We believe children [...]
A certain little scandal in the UK right now involving The News of the World has left the nation’s journalism reeling, and posed some serious questions for the industry. How was this level of unethical behaviour allowed to happen? How do we prevent it from happening again? What are the standards of journalism now that [...]
A couple of Saturdays ago, on June 25th to be precise, I had the great pleasure of attending Cybermummy. If you’re unaware of this event then it would be good to know that Cybermummy managed to bring together over 400 mummy bloggers at their London-based conference to great fanfare; including praise from Sarah Brown on [...]
I spent yesterday afternoon in a 4-hour Developing Social Business workshop, hosted by the excellent folks at LikeMinds and attended by sterling social practitioners such as Lloyd Davis and Benjamin Ellis and a variety of brands from Stardoll to Investec. What was most interesting to me was the fact that, although we covered a broad range [...]
Today’s headlines: The news is out this morning that literally overnight, Facebook has switched on facial recognition for tagging by default. Typically of the gargantuan social network, the onus is on the user to opt-out of this ‘upgrade’. A few things on this - first, for the super-private, here’s how to do just that – [...]
On a recent trip around the web last week, I came across this old post by one Steven Hodgson writing for WinExtra – He poses an interesting question: Why is it that what’s cool for Google is an ethical question for Microsoft? Quote: I remember when Google surprised everyone who was attending one of their [...]
